Seeing that they could not harm the powerful E-40 tank in any case, the tankmen of the 49th Tank Division "wisely" shifted their target to the low-bodied, easy-looking Tank 4 destroyer. ，

They soon discovered to their horror that shells were whizzing over Tank Destroyer IV, and that the sturdy frontal armor that they had been lucky enough to hit could only inflict damage on the fragile side armor of the German tanks, but by the time they realized how strong and invincible the Germans were, the battle had come to an end.

The two tracks of a T-34 with a slender antenna erected in the tail of the car rotated in opposite directions, and the body turned sharply to the left rear on the grass, spitting black smoke and escaping in the direction it came.

Two or three more and more T-34 tanks turned their heads and left the battlefield, and although they did not have time to receive the commanders' flags, the Soviet tankmen were aware of the officers' "turn" and did not hesitate to follow their movements.

The real tragedy is the tanker of the KV-1 tank, the KV-1 tank's 43-ton hull certainly brings strong defense capabilities to the tank, but also puts heavy pressure on the engine, the maximum off-road speed of 12 kilometers per hour, and the tall body, which not only make them the preferred target of German tanks, but also make them the king of tragedy that cannot be beaten and escaped.

Sensing that the T-34 and BT-5 tanks had gone in the dust, the German tanks rushed head-on, and the tankers of the KV-1 opened the hatch and jumped out of the tank, taking advantage of the terrain and the cover of the tank wreckage, and frantically fled to the rear.

The commanders of seven or eight KV-1s and a dozen T-34 tanks did not figure out the situation. With the hot blood of the punch and the dizzy head. Continue to stay on the battlefield and engage the enemy. But he was soon hit by shells flying from all directions and became the last victim of the battle.

On the vast battlefield, the corpses of tanks painted with iron crosses or red stars are everywhere.

On the Soviet side, the body was either surrounded by black smoke and flames, or the turret was lying on the grass next to the car, or the exterior was intact, but there were five or six bullet holes of various sizes on the body, and the wreckage of more than 150 tanks was laid out on the battlefield in a strange way.

Thanks to the protection of tanks of the E-40 type and tank destroyers No. 4. conAd1(); Most of the Soviet shells were absorbed, and most of the battle-damaged tanks on the German side were only damaged, and only six Type 4G tanks were heavily damaged and lost their repair value.

Wounded and damaged tanks were handed over to the maintenance department, and two companies of E-40 tanks guided the armored cluster through the killing fields strewn with Soviet tanks and the corpses of tankmen, chasing them in the direction of the Soviet tanks' escape.

The Soviet infantry was unable to move under the German artillery fire, but they could not retreat under the orders of their superiors, so they could only find hidden places to avoid the artillery fire.

They soon saw countless columns of black smoke rising from the battlefield in front of them. Columns of smoke flew diagonally into the sky with the wind.

With a light pace, a dozen BT-5 fast tanks were the first to approach them. Seven or eight T-34s followed.

What's going on up ahead? Could it be that the battle was lost?

Why are there so few tanks that have escaped back? There were more than 200 tanks when I went.

I don't know who shouted first: "Look, the tanks of the Germans." ”

Looking at the ironclad corps swarming in the distance, the Soviet infantry no longer had the courage to hold on, and turned around and fled north with the tanks.

More than 20 tanks fled to the front, each tank acting as a plague spreader, spreading the bad news of defeat and the fear of death to every Soviet officer and soldier who saw them.

The tank units were defeated, and in this kind of wilderness, there was a lack of heavy weapons and anti-tank weapons, not even trenches, and the Soviet soldiers had only light weapons in their hands, and they simply did not have the courage to confront the German tanks head-on.

Many of the Soviet soldiers were in the rear, and they didn't even see the shadow of the German tanks, but only saw the rout running back from the front line, and then they were infected by the emotions of the routs and plunged headlong into the fleeing ranks.

More and more soldiers joined the rout, and the number of soldiers fleeing for their lives was snowballing. conAd2();

About ten kilometers north of the battlefield, the headquarters of the 49th Tank Division had just moved into a small village called Igor.

Before the guards could set up positions around the village, countless figures were seen running frantically along the road and the grass on both sides, mixed with tanks.

The news of the rout soon reached the division headquarters, and the division commander, Colonel Nikonov, despite the obstruction of his subordinates, rushed out of the division headquarters with a pistol and stood in the middle of the road.

Grabbing a sergeant by the collar, Colonel Nikonov shouted: "Where is the enemy?" Why not resist your weapons? ”

"My tank was destroyed, the front line was defeated, and the German tanks were about to rush over." The sergeant said with a sad face.

With a force in his hand, Colonel Nikonov pushed down the sergeant fiercely, raised his hand in his right hand and shot the sergeant to death, and then raised the muzzle of the gun and fired four shots into the air in a row, trying to stop the troops from escaping.

However, no one paid any attention to him, and the fleeing soldiers were like a flood, and he was like a standing reef in the current, and when the current met him, it automatically split into two paths, and flowed around his side to the rear.

Seeing that the deterrence was ineffective, Nikonov hurriedly replaced the pistol in his hand with a magazine, and was about to shoot a few more deserters when he heard a few strange wind sounds in the air.

A barrage of shells fell into the group of deserters, and the fleeing soldiers around the blast point fell in pieces.

Seeing that the German shells had been tracked here, the Soviet soldiers ran faster, and all of them became athletes.

Nikonov stared dumbfounded at the smoke rising into the sky.

The previous battles against the Hungarian army had gone so well that many soldiers had not gained much combat experience, let alone experience in fighting against the wind.

Nikonov's heart was full of anger and distress, but he did not realize that the shells were getting closer and closer to him. conAd3();

The guards behind him and the other officers of the division headquarters did not have his composure, and they were inevitably infected by the panic as they saw the shells getting closer and closer.

There was no time to consult Colonel Nikonov for advice. At the signal of the chief of staff, the staff officers and guards swarmed up. Snatched the pistol from Nikonov's hands. Then, ignoring Nikonov's shouts, he hugged his arms and hugged his waist, hurriedly stuffed Nikonov into a car and fled to the rear in a panic.

By the time the armored cluster of the Greater German Division ran over the village of Igor, the division headquarters of the 49th Tank Division had already followed the general trend and fled to the rear with the large force.

On the left bank of the Tisza River, the 49th Tank Division was met head-on by the Greater German Division. There was a big rout. On the right bank of the Tisza River, the 213th Motorized Division was also suffering a one-sided massacre.

According to the telegram sent by the 12th Army, the 24th Mechanized Army learned that a German armored division was fighting with the Italian Eighth Army and outflanking the Eighth Army's rear route, and they were likely to encounter a counterattack by this armored division, so the 24th Mechanized Army headquarters placed the 49th Tank Division, which had strong combat effectiveness, on the left bank of the Tisza River to march against the German armored division.

On the right bank of the Tisza River, the reconnaissance planes of the Air Force did not find a large number of enemy troops stationed, and the 213 Motorized Rifle Division was immediately sent to the right bank of the Tisza River, this time the assignment of tasks. Doomed to the tragedy of the 213 motorized division.

The movements of the Reichmarshal's Panzer Division were all carried out at night, and the German tankers were even more well-trained. This is true not only in combat, but also in everyday life.

After receiving the order to attack, the tankmen of the armored regiment of the Reichsmarshal Division ran to all corners of the station, and the sound of tank engines was soon heard in the station.

To the east of Yasrodani village, 22 tanks of a battalion and a company were the first to drive out of the birch forest.

To the west of the village, a farmer's stable drove out of one tank, then two more out of the barn next to the stable.

On the east side of the second floor of another farmhouse, a hill-like pile of straw is piled up, and if you look closely, a half-meter-long, round and thick black metal cylinder sticks out of the straw pile.

With the sound of the engine humming, the straw pile was instantly brought to life, moving on its own without long legs.

As he moved forward, the straw on the straw pile slipped to the ground in pieces.

Shaking off the countless straws that covered its body, a No. 4 tank revealed its fierce figure, and God knows how the crew of this tank hid it in a straw pile.

To the south of the village is a large meadow dotted with thickets.

A group of tankmen in black uniforms rushed into the bushes, and after a few moments, the bushes disappeared, and a team of tanks appeared, and after more than five minutes, the tanks disappeared, leaving only a dense pile of track marks on the ground and abandoned bushes all over the ground.

In less than half an hour, as if a trick, on the right bank of the Tisza River, in the villages and towns of Yasrodani and its surrounding areas, tanks and armored vehicles roared into the field, and after completing the assembly, they launched an attack on the 213th Motorized Division.

When the Reichmarshal Panzer Division was assembled, the troops of the 213th Motorized Division were being swept away by the Luftwaffe, and they were completely unaware of the changes in the enemy's situation in front of them, completely unaware that there was an instant addition of a powerful Panzer Division in the weakly defended area of the enemy in front.

By the time the 213 Motorized Division sensed the presence of the Imperial Marshal's Panzer Division, it was too late.

Before the formation could be unfolded, the leading tank regiment was involved in the battle.

In the Soviet Union's armored combat concept, the motorized division played the role of the ancient light cavalry, so the only tank regiment in the division was fully equipped with BT-5 fast tanks.

In the face of tank No. 4, the BT-5 tank group effectively played the role of "light cavalry", weakly armored and vulnerable.

The speed of the boast is no faster than the muzzle of the No. 4 tank, and it is no faster than the speed of the shells.

With a hit, with just one shell, Tank Four can take out a BT-5 tank.

And the 5-mm tank gun on the BT-45 fast tank, at a normal engagement distance of 500 to 1,200 meters, could not damage the front armor of tank No. 4 at all.

A tragic scene soon appeared on the battlefield, and more than 100 BT-5 fast tanks swarmed up and rushed towards the No. 4 tank cluster with an unrelenting momentum, hoping to use the advantage of maneuver to close the distance to the No. 4 tank group, or find a suitable angle to attack the side armor of the No. 4 tank.

Tank No. 4 kept turning its body, trying to use its frontal armor against the enemy, and the KWK40 tank gun kept firing.

One by one, the BT-5s were destroyed in the path of the charge, and there were fewer and fewer BT-5s that could move on the battlefield.

Seeing that the enemy was defeated, the No. 4 tank group stopped the target maneuver and rushed towards the position of the 213th Motorized Division.

The bloody sacrifice of the BT-5 tank regiment bought valuable time for the infantry behind.

Using the undulating terrain and surface vegetation as cover, they constructed improvised positions and prepared to meet the onslaught of the enemy head-on.

From anti-tank guns to 45 mm and 76.2 mm anti-tank guns, all weapons that could be used against tanks were sent to the front lines.

However, the BT-5 tank regiment was defeated much faster than they had imagined, or perhaps they were too slow to build their positions.

Before the position was even in its infancy, the infantry saw BT-5 tanks rushing towards them one after another.

Before they could react, the sound of cannonballs whistling overhead.

On the ground, when the tank clusters of the two sides were fighting, the reconnaissance planes of the flying artillery regiment of the division had already reported the location of the Soviet infantry to the artillery regiment, and the shells immediately flew over the heads of the tank clusters and landed in the Soviet infantry group.

Shrapnel flew everywhere, and the Soviet infantry had to stop building positions to avoid death from the sky.

The Devil's Egg was accompanied by the shells, and as the only German Panzer unit with a divisional air force, the Reichsmarshal Panzer Division did not forget to use its most ruthless weapons.

Me-110, Stuka, and Me-109 swooped down with thousands of demon eggs still clearing the way, and Stuka swooped down with the terrible horn of Jericho.

Most of the troops of the 213th Motorized Rifle Division participated in the battle for the first time, and they had already suffered the baptism of the Sixth Air Force on the way to the march, and they had already become frightened birds.

Seeing the appearance of the Luftwaffe bombers again, and seeing the butterfly bombs that took the lives of countless comrades-in-arms and left a psychological shadow on their hearts, the originally low combat enthusiasm disappeared without a trace in an instant.

Without waiting for the butterfly bomb to approach, the Soviet soldiers turned around and ran, both officers and soldiers.

This diabolical bomb explodes in the air, and it is impossible to avoid its blows whether you are lying down or crouching in a trench, so it is wisest to escape the bomb's coverage area before it gets close.

Ignoring Stuka's dive, ignoring the low-altitude strafing of the ME-109, the soldiers of the 213th Motorized Division scattered and fled, with only one thought in their minds.

Run for your life, escape the coverage of the bomb.

Almost only one round of air strikes was used, and the crippled version of the position that the 213th Regiment had painstakingly built was completely destroyed.

When the No. 4 Tank Cluster of the Tank Regiment pressed into the position of the 213th Division, only countless abandoned weapons were left on the position, as well as corpses and wounded soldiers everywhere.

After a day of fighting, the combined attack of the 49th Tank Division and the 213th Motorized Division failed, and the counteroffensive of the Reichsmarshal Division and the Großdeutschland Division began. (To be continued......) u

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